fauces

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If the examiner moves the tongue depressor to contact the lateral wall of the fauces, this should elicit the gag reflex.

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The fauces is the opening at the connection between the oral cavity and the oropharynx.

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Stimulation of either side of the fauces should elicit an equivalent response.

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Further testing of vagus motor function has the patient repeating consonant sounds that require movement of the muscles around the fauces.

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Moreover, it is very difficult to distinguish in the swollen fauces between a membranous exudation and ulceration or superficial gangrene so common in malignant scarlet fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various